The Power of Family Constellations
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Chuck Cogliandro has a passion for music, native drumming, healing and connecting others to the Earth. He’ll be sharing just a part of his passion – Family Constellations – with Dr. Craig on Logical Soul Talk, Tuesday, September 18th, 2012, starting at 6 pm. You can listen to this 30-minute interview online, or call (347) 843-4544 to join the conversation.
At age 24 Chuck left an engineering career with General Motors, bought a Honda motorcycle, and roamed throughout the United States while nurturing a decision to step into his real love – music.
Since 1992, Chuck’s path has included bringing people together in the shared joy of West African drumming. He has been a resident instructor at Georgia State University Percussion Department, and has given workshops for hundreds of schools and groups across the southeast U.S.
Chuck is currently an enrichment instructor at Atlanta’s Orion School, drumming with children diagnosed with autism and ADHD. He has directed performing community and professional drumming groups, helped organize and performed with the 100-member drum tribe in the Opening Ceremonies of the Atlanta Olympic Games, made CD, commercial and soundtrack recordings, developed a training program featuring group rhythm for conference and corporate groups, and annually hosts and organizes the Blue Ridge Mountains African Drum & Dance Camp which gathers 12 instructors and 130 participants.
Chuck is also a healer with a private practice in Decatur, GA. He is a graduate of the four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing; adding to his ability to heal though drumming.
It is Chuck’s work on Family Constellations, however, that may be of the biggest interest to those familiar with Dr. Craig’s work . . . the fact that ancestors and families affect our own destiny and happiness. Like the growing number of true healers, Chuck believes that honoring our ancestors and respecting those who have come before us puts us right with our family, community and with the Earth.
